Congratulations to Judge Parsley on this new position and a great day today.Jon K. Parsley has been a colleague since I moved back to practice law in Guymon.I now look forward to practicing in front of Judge Parsley.

I practice law primarily in Guymon, Oklahoma and the surrounding communities of Texas County, Oklahoma, but I also practice routinely in the other two counties in the Oklahoma Panhandle – Beaver County to the East and Cimarron County to the West.Harper County is to the East of Beaver County, and because of the distance from Guymon, I practice in Harper County less frequently.Those four counties (Cimarron, Texas, Beaver, and Harper) comprise the First Judicial District in Oklahoma.

One interesting historical note that came out during today’s ceremonies was that Judge Parsley is just the 10th District Judge of the First Judicial District.As noted in an earlier post, Greg A. Zigler was the prior District Judge for the past sixteen plus years.